After India's External Affairs Minister, Sushma Swaraj threatened to rescind visas of Amazon employees, the company has stopped selling doormats resembling the Indian tri-color flag from its Canadian website.

The
issue was brought to Swaraj's attention by a Twitter user from Mumbai
who had tweeted an image of the products available on the website to
the minister. Swaraj then asked the Indian High Commission in Canada
to take up the issue with Amazon 'at the highest levels'.

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"Indian
High Commission in Canada: This is unacceptable. Please take this up
with Amazon at the highest level," Swaraj had tweeted.

"They
must withdraw all products insulting our national flag immediately,"
Swaraj wrote on Twitter.

If this is not done
forthwith, we will not grant Indian Visa to any Amazon official. We
will also rescind the Visas issued earlier.

The
doormats were being sold by a third-party on Amazon's Canadian
portal. The issue had been brought to the notice of Amazon's official
support account on Twitter and it has said that the mats were not
being sold on their Indian portal and the concerns had been
escalated.

Earlier,
in June 2016, Amazon had put up doormats with pictures of Hindu gods
and goddesses for sale. The company later removed the products from
its website after it faced protests and call for a boycott on social
media.